The Raspberry Pi runs on a fixed 5 volts. At a fixed voltage power will scale linearly with current.
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They probably believe it. I fully expect that I've actually done it before without even realising.
I mean everything. Almost literally everything.
The most recent thing I can think of is seating arrangements.
At my current workplace seating arrangements are mostly random. Someone here had the idea that we should group people by seniority so that people with related issues will be in close proximity.
However, at my previous workplace we grouped by seniority, and someone had the idea that we should mix it up so that project teams would be in close proximity.
[edit]: And lets not forget outsourcing vs. insourcing, grouping departments by geography vs. grouping departments by business type, etc., etc.
This way of thinking isn't exclusive to software.
It was beautiful. More beautiful than the Yamazaki distillery that I visited in 2013 when I was (coincidentally) on vacation in Japan.
> Might be back late spring. I can see neither of us publish our email addresses so I might drop a reply to your most recent HN thread/post closer to the time. I prefer to keep my HN personality(ies) and AFK personality separated.
Alternatively my HN username at gmail.com :)
The sheer amount of "stuff" you get for $5 (albeit USD) is staggering.
I am designing some simple electronics gadgets for Burning Man, and the electronics (low-end MSP430 based) for that is costing me a significant portion of $5 yet its significantly less powerful.
I know, I know, volume is a key issue, but honestly, that doesn't make it any less impressive to me.
Am I being to harsh in accusing The Atlantic/CityLab from clearly not putting the reader first when they created this article?
Haven't they done better than that? Except they've dealt with the possible issue that the reader has an incorrect understanding of the support lifecycle policy for Internet Explorer.
Theodores: I only want to support IE11+
Client: No. What if our users have older browsers?
* later *
Theodores: I only want to support IE11+
Client: No. What if our users have older browsers?
Theodores: That should be exceedingly rare, Microsoft have actually pulled support for those versions recently. See this link.
Client: Oh, ok then, great. IE11+ it is.
Phew!
> 1. You're in the right place for great yet reasonably priced whisky.
I visited Hakushu distillery on the weekend, it was fantastic!
> 2. I hope you're enjoying Japan.
I am! If you are around sometime soon, random person, lets grab a beer/whisky.
> The social expectations and work expectations are soul-crushing.
That's a long complicated discussion ;)
This is more a question of semantics than anything else.
I'm seriously considering setting up a camlistore[1] server but it would probably mean writing my own Android/iOS apps to do auto-upload.
Also, I do rather like all of the features that Google Photos comes with...
How regularly were you taking them?
This thread has me terrified over the possibility that one day I won't be able to take ibuprofen.
(For reference, on average I take around 2 a month, but the value I get from them is huge.)
As an aside, I also like whisky, and I've recently moved to Japan.
Are you me?
Wait. Why could you not take any NSAID any longer?
I am someone who gets a lot of value from the occasional ibuprofen, and you have me worried.
And even if it was maintaining some basic population, the incentives become misaligned when you start introducing a for-profit prison industry.
So would I!
My only point is that, in general, a gross margin of 50% is not that impressive for a company. It's pretty common.
The article described it as a "a whopping 51 percent" but I would've described it as "a pretty boring 51 percent."
Of course, that doesn't mean that I'm for their business model. I'm totally against it.
IBM's 2014 revenue was $93Bn. IBM's 2014 costs was $46Bn. Therefore their gross profit was $46Bn (after rounding). This results in a gross margin of 46/93 = 51%.
If I looked through the NYSE I'd find no shortage of companies with a gross margin around 50%.
A gross margin figure of 50% alone is really nothing to be mind-blown about.
(To be clear, I'm most certainly not defending this company. Just saying that it would be wrong to be horrified with a 50% gross margin.)
This results in a gross margin of 46/93 = 51%.
If I looked through the NYSE I'd find no shortage of companies with a gross margin around 50%.
A gross margin figure of 50% alone is really nothing to be mind-blown about.
(To be clear, I'm most certainly not defending this company. Just saying that it would be wrong to be horrified with a 50% gross margin.)
Also, a "gross margin" number is not very insightful without additional information.
A small point of note - it has been wound. But not by hand. It has a rotor (i.e. weight) in it that spins when you move, and this winds the watch.
http://i.imgur.com/VWvlDgH.jpg
> I wonder if something similar would suffice for energy needs of a device like this with no screen to power?
When I looked into it this was not possible. But of course, now that I've said that, someone's going to figure out how to do it.
I think that the trick would be customized silicon so it would be as lower power as possible. You'd also want to use super-low-power wireless technology to link it to your phone, and I think that the speed would be the tradeoff.
Well, it depends how you measure it.
In a basic model an insurance company's profit is:
Profit = Premiums + Investment Returns - Claims - Expenses
Talking about "profit from premiums" doesn't really make sense, that concept isn't defined. So you can't really say that "insurance companies don't usually make profit directly from premiums".
Fiatmoney is simply claiming that Bekshire's insurance operations have Premiums > Claims + Expenses.
Statisticians (et. al) are well versed at receiving a whole bunch of messy data and figuring out the value that they want to observe.
From a rough perspective, I think it would look something like this:
1) There will be a large concentration of people reporting pressures that are on the low side, this is the true outside pressure.
2) There will be clusters of people reporting high pressures, and that will be inside buildings.
3) To ignore funny circumstances where large amounts of people are reporting lower pressures than the true outside pressure (I'm not sure why this might be, but this is not my domain of expertise) you can compare it to the pressure that people are seeing around that area, and to official pressure readings.
Why do you think that they didnt order it a few weeks/months ago?
But if that's the case then you shouldn't click on anything on HN.
I would argue that it is A-OK to post this link directly on hackernews.
It just says "look at what your browser can do! imagine if blackhats took advantage of this."
Indeed. They implicitly apply domain-specific knowledge during the execution of the tasks that you observed.
It's great that your tool is as effective as the team in the majority of cases, but the flesh-and-blood are better in the minority cases - and that might be enough to prevent your script from being able to replace them.
The minority of cases might actually outweigh the majority of cases.
For example - your script might be able to reduce expenses by 80 * 50,000 = $4M/year, but that's not very good if a single mistake on one of the minority cases will cost the company $10M.
That being said, it seems quite likely that your script could at least be integrated into their workflow - which is great, and ought to get you big kudos.
I was thinking about setting up a similar IPython-as-a-service thing, but 5 minutes on Google suggested that it would be difficult to do it securely.
This isn't just limited to data security, but also DDoS concerns. I.e. making sure that each user doesn't take up too much CPU/RAM/HDD.
On second though, I'm sure its possible, but it certainly wasn't trivial.
I always end up doing `sudo apt-get install htop`.